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Citation needed. COVID vaccines certainly weren't tested for as long as others, but they were tested on quite a few participants before being administered to everyone: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-vaccines-clinic...
Historically, these vaccines had least testing and wider deployment than any other medicine.
What you've said here is both true and moving the goal post from your first claim while also ignoring the other fact: they were approved for emergency use which means they still were subjected to rigorous testing and trials.
They did not have least testing, they underwent parallel trial testing.
yes, let us quibble: not tested to the degree required for regular FDA approval as safe and effective, hence “Emergency Use Authorization”. I think maybe piling on the OP is unwarranted here.
IIRC in the UK the vaccines were touted by fact checkers as having “stopped hospitalisation and death from covid”, even though this was clearly not true from ONS data (yet more controversy abounds[1], predictably government statistics are intrinsically flawed because official agendas take precedence over reality[2]).
[1] https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com
[2] "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” - R.P. Feynman, 1986, Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, vol 2, appendix F.
Perhaps government troll.
To assert vaccines were not tested, when they very much were, and then to move the goal post when I challenged him (and challenged the moved goal posts) is not quibbling. It is correcting.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
https://www.umms.org/coronavirus/covid-vaccine/facts/testing
Your comment amounts to dangerous misinformation. If you really believe what you've written, please provide high quality primary sources that show medicines were administered that were untested. Anything else is you spreading misinformation.
The UMMS article is full of half truths. It's a sales document, not a summary of the science (which is still highly ambiguous).
> On January 31, 2022, the FDA announced the second approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...
> On August 23, 2021, FDA announced the first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is a monovalent COVID-19 vaccine that is authorized for emergency use to prevent COVID-19 as:
The first two doses of the three-dose primary series for children 6 months through 4 years of age.
A two-dose primary series for individuals 5 years of age and older.
A third primary series dose for individuals 5 years of age and older who have been determined to have certain kinds of immunocompromise.BTW, this conversation thread is flagged and dead, so no one sees it. And, I'm not going to vouch for the root, because it really is off-topic.
> Comirnaty is a monovalent COVID-19 vaccine that is approved for use as a two-dose primary series for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 12 years of age and older.
And booster jabs are about all that has been happening for years. Same for Moderna.
My source is FDA:
Vaccine was approved on August 23, 2021, but was used since December 11, 2020.
In other words most people in US received first dose until it was fully tested.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
If you're not sure, then just don't say anything or perhaps frame it as a question.
It is true that is a weaker standard than "FDA Approved" but it is still a high standard and certainly not "no testing".
Notice I’m not saying it’s good or bad, it’s just what the facts are.
> An EUA can only be granted when no adequate, approved, available alternatives exist, and when the known and potential benefits outweigh the potential risks.
> It is the job of the FDA to ensure medical products meet rigorous safety and efficacy standards, a process that can take years for what’s called “full approval.” Though that timeline is condensed when an EUA is granted, the FDA still upholds its strict standards.